Pau Perez
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But then, if a PAL square pixel composition is 768×576, why is my captured video looking 720×576 in square pixel (when I interpret the footage in the project window and tell it to be square pixel? That’s the oposite of what I understood it should be. The PAL square pixel composition and the PAL square pixel captured video should be the same size, no?? I don’t understand it.
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Thanks Kevin,
Well, the point is that’s what I did. I made a composition with the standards of the PAL square pixel (768×576). Then I placed the footage, which fits perfectly tot that composition but looks distorted (short and fat). So I go to the project window and click to Interpret footage and choose square pixel, so it will display it in square pixel. And what it does: it stretches the image to 720×576 so it will look correctly non-distorted. But then, it’s no longer 4:3 (it’s inside a 4:3 composition but it doesn’t cover all the composition).
So I don’t understand if that’s a problem with me or that’s supposed to be normal. But then, if a PAL square pixel composition is 768×576, why is my captured video looking 720×576 in square pixel? That’s the oposite of what I understood it should be.
I’m feeling dumb.
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But if I do that, the image will be flat and short, not with its real proportions. It’s just that I thought it was possible to obtain 4:3 with square pixels conserving its real proportions. But either you have to cut or short the image.
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Sorry, by flattened I meant that it looks fat. The point is, if I want to see the video in the computer at 4:3 (768×576) it looks fat. Instead to see it properly I have to see it at 720×576, which is not 4:3!
When capturing and watching what’s captured in any media player, it shows it 4:3 and flat. Later if I compress it with flash compressor, I can only do it at a ressolution equivalent to 720×576. The result is the image looks proportionally good, but not 4:3. The same with After Effects, when I say that I want to show it with square pixel, the image is no longer 4:3.